65.045 - From Incarceration to Education: Challenging the Effects of the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

An increasing number of schools in the United States have relied on harsh disciplinary policies and high stakes testing in an attempt to foster educational achievement among youth of color. These policies have funneled hundreds of thousands of children down life paths that lead to arrest, conviction, and incarceration: the school-to-prison pipeline. In this symposium several educators will offer their research-based perspectives and invite discussion on the ways in which educators can offer tools to the incarcerated or formerly incarcerated to make sense of their lives, to push back on repressive narratives placed upon them, and participate in dismantling the pipeline.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• William C. Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago

Papers

• At the End of the Pipeline: Can the Liberal Arts Liberate the Incarcerated? - Deborah A. Appleman, Carleton College

• Storying the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Personal Narratives as a Path Toward Transformation - Letitia Basford, Hamline University

• Teacher Education and the Incarcerated - Joseph D. Lewis, Hamline University

Discussant

• Erica R. Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University